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" I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity. "
Shia LaBeouf
Just
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" I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. "
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" I don't have many actor friends. "
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" I'm an individual, and I have opinions. "
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" I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad. "
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" Latins are into clowns. "
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" If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it. "
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" Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It's not really anything; it's just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck. "
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" I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work. "
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" I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso! "
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" I got accepted at Yale but never went. "
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" My life is okay, my life is pretty good. "
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" There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences. "
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" The comic book world is a tough business. "
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" Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics. "
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" I think penguins are the most human of all the birds, which may be why people love them. They're cute, they stand upright and they look like they're wearing tuxedos. "
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" Every actor chooses their story at the beginning. "
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" I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role. "
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" When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints. "
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" I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity. "
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" Most actors on most days don't think they're worthy. "
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" There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. "
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